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Thanks you for answering my message. As you know, originally I created the page on Death(Discworld) and there was Copyright issues so it was taken down. At first I didn't understand to rewrite to a temp page and just rewrote it over the article a few times. They were quickly taken down each time and I didn't understand why, so I asked you. You then informed me about the temp page and I then copied what I had rewritten onto the temp page. That anon is not me, but in my rewrite I did originally write the info about the extra characters and about the film adaptations. (Because I own both) I don't know how that page is dated before my temp. It probably has something to do with my rewriting on to the article and not the temp page. When I first created the original page there was no other entry about it. Unless you can pull the history of the original article before it was replace by the stub (it showed the history of my rewrites), I don't know how I can prove I wrote it. I'm sorry for all the mess and I thank you for looking into it like this. The only thing I could find to help was the stub creation date it gives in the history now is: 23:14, 26 Jun 2004, and your first reply to me in reference to my question about the page was before that at 08:53, Jun 26, 2004. I had already rewriten it a few times before I even got in touch with you. I hope this helps and thanks again.

Another Message from jkf6030

I have a question in reference to the message below that I sent you months ago. You sent me a reply very quickly and I appreciate that and I did exactly as you suggested rewriting the page on the /temp version of the page. My question is did I do something wrong when I did this. When the page was restored what I wrote in my rewrite from the /temp was placed as the article but it was not credited to me. (Instead Jimregan was credited with stub creation) It was like this other user just copied what I wrote and posted it as his entry. You can still view the temp page and compare the two. I know it's been little while but I was reviewing this in my contributions and it just kind of gets on my nerves. I also want to figure out what I did wrong, incase this ever happens again I know what to do. Thanks for your help.

Message from jkf6030

Burgundavia how are you, one of the pages that I created Death (Discworld) was removed with a copyright notice. I don't feel as if it is, just that the page that was claim to be the source is describing the same character just in much more detail. But, I want the page to work properly so I rewrote it on the temp page. Would you be so kind as to take a look at it and make sure there is no problems with it before it goes up. Thanks for your time and your welcome message.

Vfd etiquette

Hi. You posted the following on my talk page.

Hey, I just noticed you listed this page The Cheese Profiler on WP:Vfd as "crap". One of the things about Vfd is that the author is probably going to see that, if they care about joining the community at all. So be kind, be gentle, as it costs you nothing. Also, it makes it much harder for people to vote. Cheers Burgundavia 10:02, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

So the author might see it -- great. Maybe he/she then won't post crap again. How does calling crap crap make it hard for people to vote? If they don't agree it's crap they'll vote to keep. Moriori 21:35, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC). PS, just had a thought. How do you interpret the word crap? I use the word as defined in defs 1 and 2 in Wiktionary, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Crap. Lots of people down this way do. User:Ping too, I notice.Moriori 21:42, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I agree it is crap, however the principle of do not bite the newcomers applies here. There is as much general unfriendly almost clubiness that happens at vfd, something that annoys me (and I happen to know other users too) a great deal. Try and keep that to be a minimum. Try not the turn it into Slashdot, which is what I fear that it is becoming. And no, User:RickK is not someone to emulate, IMNSHO. Burgundavia 02:16, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

Don't jump to conclusions with the word newcomers. If you were following Vfd a couple of weeks ago you could have seen two very clever hoaxes, from two different IP addresses. Posted by the same person who tried to give the impression he was two newbies. Formatting gave the show away. Exactly the same as for a couple of other items deleted some months back. Furthermore, if you have a beef with people clubbing it together on Vfd then tell them. Don't say to me -- try and keep that to be a minimum (a D minus for English) or try not the turn it into Slashdot. I've just checked my last 500 posts and see that excepting the two hoax posts mentioned above, I have posted to Vfd only five times since April 29. When you dry behind your ears you might learn to check things before shooting off. Don't worry, most of us went through it. Incidentaly (2), do you not thibk there is a place in Wiki for people like RickK? If you intend to reply, do so here to preserve continuity of the conversation. Moriori 03:05, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

I follow Vfd quite regularly, and I don't really like a lot of what happens there. For the record, I have never had anything I really cared about, or even had a strong opinion on, listed on Vfd. This is not an attack because I rubbed against the people there the wrong way. My main argument is that we should assume the best, and thus treat the entry as such. If you look at my edit history, I am not a blanket inclusionist, I have voted to delete things. As for RickK, is a very useful and valuable member of WP. I could live with a little less of his shoot from the hip attitude, but I have been accused of that before as well. He is a useful check and he makes a great many extremely useful edits. Burgundavia 06:46, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

You can assume the best and be as touchy feely as you like, but we are not here for YOUR feelings or MY feelings. We are here to always try to improve the integrity of Wilkipedia. Naive defence of crap postings lowers standards rather than elevate them. Next time you say things like - try and keep that to be a minimum and try not the turn it into Slashdot to someone without the slightest justification, as has already been pointed out to you, just try saying "sorry". I'll take what you call RickK's shoot from the hip attitude over your immature lectures any day. Moriori

It is the use of words like 'crap' in Wikipedia which degrade it. Please refrain from such slang vulgarities in future, especially in situations where the content in question may be an honest contribution by an ill-informed user. Wikipedia does not have a "no-tolerance" policy. - Mark 17:51, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Read your last sentence. And again. Then explain why it doesn't apply to YOU. Moriori 22:23, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

This is not an either or situation. We can still remove that which needs to be removed from WP and be civil about it. At no point have I argued that we should have keep anything you have voted to delete, merely that in the process, civility and humanity can be remembered. Burgundavia 15:57, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

• Why is it that holier than thous need to introduce red herrings such as you did here. No-one suggested anywhere that you argued to keep anything I voted to delete. Why do you feel a need to make that inference? Also, when any of us here consider something is crap, we will call it crap. You stay as PC as you like, and perhaps work towards deleting the word crap from Wiktionary. Moriori 22:23, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

This is not about staying PC, it is about staying civil and professional. The written word is a terrible medium for conducting business, because you cannot shade with emotion. Burgundavia 22:29, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

To the contrary, the written word is the very best medium for conducting business, because it leaves evidence of what was said. Furthermore, there are many words that convey exactly the right description of something. Take CRAP for instance. The first two defs in Wiktionary say it means 1. Something of poor quality and 2. Something that is rubbish, useless.. That perfectly decribes the article listed on Vfd . Isn't it great to witness the very evolution of English usage. Moriori 01:11, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)

As soon as the majority of news broadcasts, newspaper articles and journal articles begin to use the word "crap" to describe anything of poor quality, I will support its inclusion in Wikipedia. Until that point, we should strive to keep Wikipedia's literary quality above what Americans would call "potty-mouth". - Mark 04:06, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

TWO extremely important points here. Firstly, what arrogance motivates you to think you can claim that YOU are WE? You most definitely are not we. Secondly, Wikipedia is an international co-operative, and not everyone on Wiki blindly accepts Americans' opinions re everything. I'm surprised you hadn't noticed that already. Moriori 08:09, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, WP is an international org, but crap is not used on many other countries news broadcasts either, AFAIK. I think the original intent of my comment is lost. All I asked for was some common courtesy. Using, Not "encyclopedic, IMHO" as opposed to "crap". Crap and other derogatory words are, IMHO, not useful for building communities and long term relationships, most especially in the critical first few impressions. IE, I can say to someone who I have interacted with a lot that I think their edit was crap, but that is because they know I am not attacking them and that generally there edits are good. However, with someone new, if the first thing they see when they know nothing of the project, is a page of theirs being described as crap, would I want to return? Please, put yourself in their shoes. Burgundavia 08:17, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

You claim YOU can target someone with there edit was crap. Funny how you want the right to do so but deny me the same right! I was NOT targeting a personality, but described a crappy post as crap. It was crap, and it still is crap. How about you catching up with the real world? What has the reference to many other countries news broadcasts got to do with anything? What are you on about? Totally irrelevant. Another red herring smokescreen. I asked a question a couple of days ago, but it wasn't answered, so here we go again --why is it that holier than thous need to introduce red herrings? Moriori 08:52, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

This discussion is going around and around and getting nowhere. Let me deal with your complaints one at a time.

1 - "You claim YOU can target someone with there edit was crap. Funny how you want the right to do so but deny me the same right!" - I retract this statement, as it was not well thought out.

2 - "I was NOT targeting a personality, but described a crappy post as crap. It was crap, and it still is crap" - An important point, that all things are our opinion, thus crap is your opinion. We are building a professional encyclopedia, and thus I try and treat people with respect and professionalism, as I would in a job. In a professional environment, one does not use crap all that much, AFAIK.

3 -" many other countries news broadcasts" - refers to you saying that we should not be amerocentric, which was a comment on mark's (an Aussie) comment on crap being used in american news. Thus I stated that crap probably isn't used on any other countries news broadcasts either.

4 - This discussion is not about the article itself and its relative merits. That discussion happened on Vfd, as it should. This discussion is about how things should be worded on Vfd when listing and discussing those articles. Again, I maintain my position that we should maintain a professional attitude whenever possible and treat people in that way, even if this is the 3rd (or the 9th, or the 32nd) non-encyclopedic article by the same person. I say that we should evalutate the article, not the person writing it, otherwise ad hominem can quickly sneak in. IE, User:XYZ always writes crap, therefor it should be deleted. Burgundavia 09:15, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

Re:Puerto Rico

Hey Corey! Excellent job on the new pages! I really like the lay-out on the airport pages, and I hope you put the lay-outs on the seven Puerto Rican airports I wrote about.

About Puerto Roco not being a country, well, thats one of the most controversial issues in he world. While we have no [[United Nations] representation, we have Olympic authonomy. While we "are a state" we cannot vote during Presidential campaign. Airlines from the United States always consider us an "international destination", yet airlines from Puerto Rican airlines are subject to have NA??? numbers on them. Its really confusing. My family is a great example of the confusion. My grandpa wants it to become the fifty first state of the union and so does my mother. Me and my father want it to be independent. I tell my grandfather, well if you wanna be "American", why dont you cheer for the American boxer when they fight Felix Trinidad and mom, I tell her , If you think youre American, cheer for Miss USA instead of Miss Puerto Rico at Miss Universe, which; by the way; is another ting there, beauty organizations recognize Puerto Rico as an autonomous country when it comes to peagants.

My own family's arguments reflect those of other Puerto Ricans. They proudly wear Puerto Rican flags everywhere, but the ones who vote for the PNP, the party that wants Statehood, I call those hypocrites. My view is that only Puerto Ricans who go for the PPD or the PIP are honest in saying they are proud to be Puerto Rican.

Having lived in the States for fourteen years, I have a lot of gratitute to this country and love to the state I live in. I have no plans to return to Puerto Rico because I, like millions others here, want to be a celebrity and hit it real big here. But I would definitely enjoy the dual citizenshio guaranteed by the constitution to me and those other Puerto Ricans born under American control of our island! Most Puerto Ricans say Puerto Rican is their nationality and I would be so proud if it could finally, officially , be recognized as a nationality by the other countries.

In theory, looking at the debate of whether Puerto Rico is a country or a state, is really like looking at a Tennis court: All lines are perfectly lined, all dimensions perfectly set, you cant tell one side from the other, only two competitors raking it up against each other in sides that perfectly match each other.

I recently found out that Puerto Rico actually had a President for three months during the [[1700s], in an article written by my dad.

As far as Puerto Rico being a country or not, politically , you're right. But me and millons other Puerto Ricans refuse to be called "Americans" and get this, I know this is stupid, but even many statehood voters dont want to be called "American", unlike mom and grandpa, of course. I tell people "Look, even if we become a state, they (generally) will keep on looking down at us because we are not as white as they are!"

After the Vieques victory, in which Viequenses have discovered they can progress without the large economical resources the military provided, many Puerto Ricans have been inspired to create a movement geared towards Puerto Rico becoming a Republic by 2005, similar to what happened in a former American possetion in the [Pacific Ocan]]. Shall Puerto Ricans then decide they want to become a republic, the States are entitled to give Puerto Rico independence in six months, maintain us for a further 71 years so we can establish an economy, give us Puerto Ricans who were born under American ownership dual citizenship, and we'd be entitled to a seat in the United Nations.

Im not mad at you for bringning the thing into the table, rather thankful. I pray to God that someday the rest of the world that sees our ties with the States, which were, by the way, forced upon us in the early 20 Century as we had no say then when the state took over, accepts us as a different country.

Go there and you will see it by yourself: We are Latin America, not the States when you get there. Most Latin American Presidents, when talking of Puerto Rico, call us "el pais de..." or "the country of" as do most other Latin American people, out of respect to our "country", because, whether we are a part of the States or not, it is a fact that we are Hispanics, that Puerto Rico is accepted by everyone as part of Latin America, and that the culture simply reflects that of the rest of our Hispanic countries.

I, myself, consider to be 200% proud of being Puerto Riocan and %150 percent proud of being Latin American, no matter what others say about us here. Im a %100 percent supporter of the human rights of Mexican illegals and other Latino illegals here.

So, in theory, and to finish this message herem I guess the balance is, well...balanced in tis case. I mean, what about that? While still legally a possetion of the United States, the Latin Anmerican confederations and organizations always include Puerto Rico in their programs! Whats more, look into the internet and you will see how huge he debate is!

I hope you can leave Puerto Rico on the list of airports and countries at least for a while. As I said, airlines from North America do consider Puerto Rico an international destination...

Thanks, bud, and God bless!!

Sincerely yours Antonio The Star Martin

Football kit

Some teams do, Arsenal F.C., Aston Villa F.C., Germany off the top of my head.

The templates work fine in Mozilla, there's no point commenting them out as you'll just have to put them back in again when the template is fixed for whatever browser you are using - and they're used on a /lot/ of pages, at least 100. Ed g2s 15:16, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The problem is something to do with the stylesheets in IE, my test page works fine in all browsers (http://g2s.dyndns.org/wiki/football/kit.html), so I imagine the solution will have to involve

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Message from fr.wiki

Hello, i'm the same sebjarod from fr.wiki. I want to excuse myself if I appeared too rude this morning (french time) when you start to move interwikis and cat. I was not; I just wanted to spare you the effort since bottom- or top-page-interwikis is a very old topic of debate between some people on fr. And, since, these somes are sometimes quick to heat up, I wanted to spare you their ressentment.

So, if you want to do things on fr., I am not the one that will stop you from it. :)

Good day (2:30pm for me) or good canadian-pacific night. Sebjarod 12:29, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hello, an update on the kafkaian frwiki policies on categories and interwiki. Now, you placed them where you want (up or down) when you created them on a page. Nobody shouts :) Sebjarod 08:41, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Delayed greets

..you rang? +sj+ 14:24, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Source of data for airport table

Where is the data source for the stuff in the Wikiproject:Airports table? Did you get each individually from the airport website? WhisperToMe 22:24, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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See update on Manston added recently... Faedra

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ps: dear Corey, as a member of the Association of Members' Advocates, and one of the first wikipedians to offer me useful advise, I feel you might be able to help with something I am finding rather odd of late, something which I am not conplaining about but which seems rather unatural to wikipedians...

This being that I have specifically written from scratch a number of items for the website that have remained unchallenged, and unaltered.

(apart from my contribution on Peter Carroll, (see history of said page) which Pete (a personal friend) thought rather interesting, a comment from his reply to my email to him being noted on my talk page!..)

Either I have become proficient in my spelling, and research to the point of excellence, or I am being deliberately ignored by other users?

All of my copyright problems have now been resolved but I am not happy that the history files on my item the great fire of whitstable are still available, can these be removed?... Faedra 13:07, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Any comments you may be able to offfer on this curious state of affairs would be duly noted. Yours Sincerely. Faedra.

Hi Corey, that sounds great. You might want to get him to contact Jimbo directly at jwales at wikia dot com or to discuss the possibilities on the wikitech-l mailing list if he doesn't mind discussing it publicly. Angela. 17:36, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Bg, come back!

you have an entire wikipedia named after you. you can't just abandon us like this. +sj+

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday to you... and me! :)

British Indian Army

Please havea look at Talk:British Indian Army as the discussion is about naming and you had some thoughts on dates in names – Philip Baird Shearer 11:24, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Edit attribution

Hi. Edits from your IP have now been reattributed to your username. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 10:45, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Where have you gone off to?

Burg, what happened? Where are you? →Raul654 07:28, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

Glad to see you still poke your head in every once in a while. :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 05:22, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Southend Airport

Sorry I can't help with vetting Southend airport edits but I've never been anywhere near Southend (I took the pic at Heathrow). Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 21:17, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Airports

Thanks for the greetings! Nice to find out that there's actually an "Airports" project, I didn't notice ^_^ Count me in! --Patrick Bernier 10:56, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)

Partition of India

You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Collaboration of the Week

Your vote for African art has helped bring about the article's selection as this week's Collaboration of the week. Please join in trying to make the article a feature.

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)}[[]] 15:31, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week

Congratulations, the candidate you voted for, Underground Railroad, is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please help edit the article to bring it up to feature standard.

COTW

Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.

List of Canadian Ministers of Justice

Your November 28 revision of this somehow overwrote the entire article with Labour instead of Justice, I reverted. You might want to reapply the table formatting change you intended. -- P.T. Aufrette 04:30, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

January 15 Seattle meetup

Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:55, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Call for AMA election

AMA Member Advocate,

There's a poll currently in the AMA Homepage about making a new AMA Coordinator election. Please, cast your vote there (though it's not mandatory). Any comments you have about this, write it on the AMA Homepage talk page. Cheers, --Neigel von Teighen 18:43, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

AMA Membership Meeting

As AMA Coordinator I am requesting that suggestions be placed on Wikipedia:AMA Membership Meeting plans for our first membership meeting, to be held in the near future, (hopefully before any election occurs.) Since we have never had any kind of "official" meeting we need to discuss how this will occur (i.e. Wiki pages or IRC channel), how it will be structured (i.e. meeting agenda) and if there will be any "chair" to supervise the meeting and meeting "secretary" to write up minutes or keep some kind of official record of what transpires. Thank you for your membership and volunteer work as an advocate. 19:40, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

COORDINATOR'S OFFICIAL AMA MEETING NOTICE

The first AMA Membership meeting will be held on Sunday January 23, 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 2 PM Eastern NA (Miami/Montreal) Time, 11 AM Pacific NA (Los Angeles/Vancover)Time, and 8 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend. — © Alex756 01:25, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sorry you won't be able to come to the first meeting, but we are planning to have more than one, we'll discuss the schedule and maybe it will be monthly or even weekly for a while. Have a safe trip. — © Alex756 01:37, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Logs of first AMA Membership meeting

You may view the log of the first meeting on the following two pages: Wikipedia:AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) (first hour) and Wikipedia:AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) Pt II (remainder of meeting). If you are interested in commenting on the agenda of the meeting please do so here:Wikipedia:AMA Meeting (suggested topics).

OFFICIAL SECOND MEETING NOTICE AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

"The second AMA Membership meeting will be held on Sunday January 30 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 2 PM Eastern NA Time, 11 AM Pacific NA Time, and 8 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend."

The coordinator is requesting that members submit the following information for the upcoming coordinator’s report:

• How many individuals did you help as an advocate
• What is the maximum amount of time you put into a case
• Do you feel your work as an advocate was successful?
• How can the advocacy program of the AMA be improved?

Thank you. Please submit your responses here: Wikipedia:AMA Coordinator/January 2005 Survey

— © Alex756 23:25, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) (The Coordinator)

OFFICIAL AMA THIRD MEETING NOTICE

The second AMA IRC Membership meeting was held on Sunday January 30, 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode.net IRC channel #AMA. Attending were Wally, Metasquares, Anthere, Sam Spade, and alex756 (coordinator). The log of the second meeting can be found here: Wikipedia:AMA IRC Meeting log (1-30-05).

"The third AMA Membership meeting will be held on Saturday February 12, 2005 at 17:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 12:00 Noon Eastern NA Time, 9 AM Pacific NA Time, and 6 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend.

Suggested Topics and Specific Proposals

MEMBERS PLEASE REVIEW

Suggestions for topics/proposals and agenda to be discussed at the next meeting are to be found at: Wikipedia:AMA Meeting (suggested topics). All members are requested to make proposals there and respond to proposals on the talk page there before the beginning of the next meeting so discussion can be held forthwith concerning such proposals. Thank you, your Coordinator.

The coordinator is requesting that members who have not done so already submit the following information for the upcoming coordinator’s report:

• How many individuals did you help as an advocate
• What is the maximum amount of time you put into a case
• Do you feel your work as an advocate was successful?
• How can the advocacy program of the AMA be improved?

Thank you. Please submit your responses here if you have not done so already. — © Alex756 23:30, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Johnson Beharry

I've just posted this in Talk:Johnson_Beharry:

Many thanks to Burgundavia and everyone else who so quickly put in such a good job on this. What a credit to you and Wikipedia! Thincat 13:00, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

More schools on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion

As of March 25, 2005, there are an additional (6) articles listed for deletion under the POV notion that schools are non-notable (even though this is invalid reasoning as per the Wikipedia deletion policy). Please be aware that the following schools are actively being discussed and voted upon:

• VfD: Blake Junior High School (renominated)
• VfD: Franklin High School
• VfD: Lake Dow Christian Academy
• VfD: Red Lake High School
• VfD: The Sage School
• VfD: Toowoomba Grammar School

In response to this cyclical ordeal, a Schoolwatch programme has been initiated in order to indentify school-related articles which may need improvement and to help foster and encourage continued organic growth. Your comments are welcome and I thank you again for your time. --GRider\^talk

Re: Victoria Dot Map image

Okay. I'll tell you right up front, that yes, I did get the base map for that particular image from the BC Stats website. Perhaps I should have just cited the source of that image and claimed fair use on it. BTW, it's the same situation for Image:BCMap-doton-Nanaimo.png, Image:BCMap-doton-PortAlberni.png, Image:BCMap-doton-Courtenay.png and Image:BCMap-doton-CampbellRiver.png, as well as all of the maps I uploaded for the individual Regional Districts. Denelson83 16:35, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Airports

Thanks for the pointer to the WikiProject Airports page -- I wasn't aware of that before, and I'm going to sign up and try to standardize the airport pages I work on. Dpm64 20:26, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Airports of mainland China

I understand it could have been troublesome to have this category exist. My position remains, that is, the previous CFD poll on category:Airports of the People's Republic of China did not address how airports in mainland China should be categorised. I apologise if it made you feel annoyed. — Instantnood 10:25, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

You're right. I do hope it can be sorted, and I am already working towards such a system at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). — Instantnood 10:35, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

Palmdale airport picture

I took the pic myself with my digital camera. I don't have it copyrighted. Wikipedia may use it. --Anon 02:20, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

RE: Mexico Airports.

...I started with WikiProject Airports, which may interest you. Just a small not, on the english wikipedia, we use the english name for something, we use airport instead of aeropuerto. ... 03:12, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

RE:Tanks.I already finish the translation of the airports article (with several weeks of delay ) originally included it direct from the version in Spanish, also I am interested in the airports project.Mnts 00:59, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

100 Greatest Cartoons

Your nagging is unappreciated. I post URLs when I have one. I didn't even bother to look for a URL for this page because of its obvious lineage. RickK 19:29, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Categories and mising airports

Yea, not being able to put tuff at the bottom makes it a royal pain. I already have too many commerical airports to make the page look good. So, I'm going to create a List of Airports of the United States that need articles and put that in Category:Airports of the United States. Should look a lot better. Vegaswikian 18:19, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• I think the list of US airports needs to die. A list of what's mising that should at some point either die or only list less then notable airports sounds better. Lists need to be maintained. I think there is way too much work in keeping the destinations for each airport current, so another list that would require constant manual changes seems to be the wrong way to go. Vegaswikian 18:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Putting them in the states' Category sounds like a good balance. I'll do that. I can speedy delete the list I just created if I empty it. Vegaswikian 18:44, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)